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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007339 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] General Bug | public | 2021-09-22 19:33 | 2021-10-22 00:13 |
| Reporter | 4wi7u4 | Assigned To | rhertzog | ||
| Priority | high | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 2021.3 | ||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | 2021.3 | |||
| Summary | 0007339: Live USB Encrypted Persistence won't work. | ||||
| Description | I've written the Kali 2021.3 image via dd and created the LUKS partition called 'persistence'. Created persistence.conf on it which contains '/ union'. Then I tried to boot up in 'Live USB Encrypted Persistence'. It just started the Live without asking LUKS password. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1) Write the flash drive via dd 2) create a LUKS partition called 'persistence' 3) create persistence.conf which contains '/ union' on it 4) boot up using 'Live USB Encrypted Persistence' | ||||
| Additional Information | I didn't tried creating encrypted persistence on this version. It definitely worked on 2021.2. So, I think it is a 2021.3 bug. | ||||
| has duplicate | 0007373 | closed | Cannot create live persistent encrypted USB with kali 2021.3 iso |
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I've experienced the same. I spent some time trying multiple combinations of SD Cards, Flash Drives, and writing software - being sure to follow the documentation (and trying my own thing). As above 2021.2 consistently works fine, and encrypted persistence in 2021.3 just doesn't. Non-encrypted persistence in 2021.3 seems to work though. I've also tested with "kali-linux-2021-W39-live-everything-amd64.iso" in case there's something updated/extra in there but encrypted persistence doesn't work in that either. |
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Another example https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=7373 |
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I have the same problem. I discovered it’s because the cryptsetup-initramfs package isn’t included in the live image. I rebuilt the live image with that package and everything worked. |
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I can confirm. I downloaded both the 2021.2 and 2021.3 live images, unpacked the initrd and looked at the content:$ find initrd-2021.2 -name '*cryptsetup*' initrd-2021.2/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup initrd-2021.2/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup/askpass.cryptsetup initrd-2021.2/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup-nuke-password initrd-2021.2/main/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.12 initrd-2021.2/main/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.12.6.0 initrd-2021.2/main/usr/sbin/cryptsetup initrd-2021.2/main/conf/conf.d/cryptsetup $ find initrd-2021.3 -name '*cryptsetup*' initrd-2021.3/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup initrd-2021.3/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup/askpass.cryptsetup initrd-2021.3/main/usr/lib/cryptsetup-nuke-password initrd-2021.3/main/conf/conf.d/cryptsetup Indeed, the cryptsetup binary is missing. |
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Should be fixed in the 2021.3a release ISO that we released: http://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2021.3/kali-linux-2021.3a-live-amd64.iso |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2021-09-22 19:33 | 4wi7u4 | New Issue | |
| 2021-09-26 19:27 | HelpfulHermit | Note Added: 0015240 | |
| 2021-10-15 18:41 | Gamb1t | Assigned To | => Gamb1t |
| 2021-10-15 18:41 | Gamb1t | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2021-10-15 18:41 | Gamb1t | Assigned To | Gamb1t => rhertzog |
| 2021-10-15 18:43 | Gamb1t | Note Added: 0015300 | |
| 2021-10-15 18:44 | Gamb1t | Relationship added | has duplicate 0007373 |
| 2021-10-18 22:27 | MotherMucca | Note Added: 0015317 | |
| 2021-10-19 07:59 | arnaudr | Note Added: 0015319 | |
| 2021-10-21 13:51 | rhertzog | Status | confirmed => resolved |
| 2021-10-21 13:51 | rhertzog | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2021-10-21 13:51 | rhertzog | Fixed in Version | => 2021.3 |
| 2021-10-21 13:51 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0015334 |